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Perception Quotes
"The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges."
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"The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?"
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"In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli."
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"Unfortunately, it doesn't ever really matter what the truth is. Only what they think it is."
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"The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye."
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"Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues."
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"The really explicit phrase is doors of perception."
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"Chromatacia society ruled by a colortocracy social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see."
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"Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all."
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"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft."
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"You are very kind," he said. "Very wrong, but very kind."
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"There. My ears are all dead. Now you try."Three times I repeated the movements she'd made. Slowly, carefully, but nothing left me with the impression that my ears had died. The wine was rapidly circulating through my system."I do believe that my ears aren't dying properly, " I said, disappointed.She shook her head. "That's okay. If your ears don't need to die, there's nothing wrong with them not dying."
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"I often see through things right to the apparition itself."
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"It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures."
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"He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it."
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"So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality."
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"She knew it wasn't real. She knew the holograph wouldn't hurt. But she also knew that fire was dangerous, and illusions were dangerous, and being tricked into believing things that weren't real was often the most dangerous thing of all."
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"Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies."
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"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route."
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"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."
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"You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun."
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"If your eyes are blinded with your worries you cannot see the beauty of the sunset."
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"Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!"
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"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."
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"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
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"If you think people in your life are normal, then you undoubtedly have not spent any time getting to know the abnormal side of them."
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"Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction."
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"Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly."
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"People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
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"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
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"I smelled silt on the wind, turkey, laundry, leaves . . . my God what a world. There is no accounting for one second of it (267)."
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"On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes."
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"Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude."
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"An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed."
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"In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft."
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"What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?"
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"He who has foresight has more than two eyes."
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"The obvious matters are more imperceptible today."
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"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
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"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."
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"Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more."
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"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
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"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours. That's relativity."
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"Your failure may put smiles on people's faces while your success squeezes tears from their eyes. Don't be deceived, it's just a charm to entice you to fall in love with mediocrity!"
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"It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgements."
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"Elasticity is a fundamental principle of perception."
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